This thing crawls over a torturous 140-minute running length, with teenage love given a dire gravitas which verges on the absurd.
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03/01/07
Broken Sky (2006)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:6
Rotten:8
Average Rating:4.5/10
Theatrical Release:Sep 29, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: This mostly silent, gay-themed Mexican movie is an artful look at relationships and sex between men, and is filmed in the breathtaking surroundings of the National Autonomous University in Mexico... [More]
Director: Julian Hernandez
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It's hard to know what fetishes/obsessions/issues are at work here, but they do yield interesting moviemaking.
02/09/07
After such a triumph with A Thousand Clouds of Peace (Mil Nubes de Paz Cercan el Cielo) the second installment in Julián Hernández's apparent "Cielo" series is a sluggish disappointment.
02/05/07
I have jokingly described BROKEN SKY (EL CIELO DIVIDIDO) as the gay, Mexican version of THE BREAK-UP, although to be fair, this film at least has more sympathetic characters. ... But, at 140 minutes, [it] goes on far too long.
01/11/07
A film dripping with melodrama and pretension.
11/23/06
[Director] Hernández's approach makes all the difference, trusting the camera to reveal the ebb and flow of emotions that sweep over all three men.
11/21/06
Top CriticAn endurance test notable mainly for its evocative cinematography and the well-toned bodies of its young male leads.
10/18/06
Top CriticHernandez's exquisite romance works on an emotional, as well as intellectual, level.
09/29/06
I could have gone out for dinner, come back and missed little of importance.
09/29/06
Top CriticI suspect the film's frank, at times glorious rendering of queer sexuality will inspire more than a few closeted youths to brave life out in the open.
09/29/06
Boy meets boy like youve never seen in Julián Hernándezs sex-drenched, extravagantly minimalist epic.
09/28/06
Top CriticWithout dialogue, we don't know who the characters are, so we can't care about what they do.
09/26/06
Top CriticLove-making in Hernández' film is not a physical act but an emotional state expressed through physical action. Certainly not multiplex fare, but definitely one of the year's best films.
04/25/06
The pic's torturously slow pace turns an earnest effort into a tedious aesthetic exercise.
04/25/06
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